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36.Dd September 22, 2002
37.Dt INTRO 8
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm intro
41.Nd introduction to system maintenance procedures and commands
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43This section contains information related to system operation
44and maintenance.
45.Pp
46It describes commands used to create new file systems
47.Pq Xr newfs 8 ,
48verify the integrity of the file systems
49.Pq Xr fsck 8 ,
50control disk usage
51.Pq Xr edquota 8 ,
52maintain system backups
53.Pq Xr dump 8 ,
54and recover files when disks die an untimely death
55.Pq Xr restore 8 .
56The
57.Xr format 8
58manual
59for the specific architecture the system is running on should be
60consulted when formatting disks and tapes.
61Network related services like
62.Xr inetd 8
63and
64.Xr ftpd 8
65are also described.
66.Pp
67A number of pages in this section describe general system management
68topics. For example, the
69.Xr diskless 8
70page describes how to boot a system over a network, and the
71.Xr compat_linux 8
72page describes how to run Linux binaries on
73.Nx
74architectures that support it.
75.Sh HISTORY
76The
77.Nm intro
78section manual page appeared in
79.Bx 4.2 .
80